Purchase Solution

Effects of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy on the Individual

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Do you think the old saying "I will find it in the last place I look" is an example of a self fulfilling prophecy? I always think to myself, "of course it is the last place you will look because whey would you keep looking after you have found what you were looking for." Can you think of any positive effects that self-fulfilling prophecy has had on your own life?

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

A discussion on the power of self-fulfilling prophecy is examined.

Solution Preview

Yes, I think this may be an example of a self fulfilling prophecy, providing the individual actually believes that statement. I have used the statement before, but many times I was not serious about it. I knew deep inside that there was a chance I would find the item within the next two ...

Solution provided by:
Carmel Philistin, MBA/HCM
Education
  • BA, Brooklyn College
  • MBA/HCM, Phoenix University
Recent Feedback
  • "Thank you!"
  • "Thank you!"
  • "Thank you!"
  • "Thank you!"
  • "Thank you!!"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Anxiety Disorders

This quiz is designed to help students gain a better understanding of various types of anxiety disorders.

Erik Erikson's Psychosocial Stages

Erik Erikson researched eight stages of psychosocial development beginning at birth and ending at death. This quiz challenges your knowledge of each stage, the corresponding age range, and the conflicts present during each stage.

The Psychology of Sleep

This quiz is to check your understanding of the sleep-related part of psychology.

Key Psychology Theories and their Developers

Match which psychologist developed and/or contributed to which theory.

Emotional Intelligence: A Beginning

An introduction to an emerging branch of Psychology-Emotional Intelligence.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Effective communication to a teamwork project

    Knowing what you do about "the self-fulfilling prophecy" and â??expectancy theoryâ? and the effects on Jack's behavior, write a memo introducing him to the project and the role he will play.

  • Self-fulfilling prophecy

    The original definition of a self fulfilling prophecy was coined by Robert Merton as "a false definition of situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."

  • Implications of Self Fulfilling Prophecy in Society

    280338 Implications of Self Fulfilling Prophecy in Society What are the implications of self-fulfilling prophecy on a societal scale?

  • Stereotyping Affects Perceptual Process

    Discuss how stereotyping, attribution, and self-fulfilling prophecy effects influence the perceptual process. Share a related personal experience.

  • brief overview of self-fulfilling prophecy

    339125 brief overview of self-fulfilling prophecy What is the self-fulfilling prophecy? And why is it important for a student of social psychology to know?

  • National Culture, Heterogeneous Nation, and Perceptual Gap

    The "perceptual gap" between supervisors and employees still exists today - why? In answering this question one should consider using the following: Pygmalion & Golem effects, (aka Thorndike's Law of Effect), self-fulfilling prophecy, and H.

  • Self- Concept

    -In the response list the definition of "self-fulfilling prophecy -have a description of how self-fulfilling prophecy can play a part in defining someone's self-concept Please add an illustration for this question DEFINITION: The tendency to live

  • Self-fulfilling Prophecy & Decision Making

    QUESTION: Knowing what you do about "the self-fulfilling prophecy" and the effect it may have from Susan's point of view, write a memo introducing her to the project and the role she will lead.

  • Rational Leadership

    a) attributions made by a leader about a follower which become a self-fulfilling prophecy is not a rational approach to leadership.

View More Related Solutions